Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in blended learning enable people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cyprus to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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